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lxml

lxml

The lxml XML toolkit for Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

lxml has 379.2M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 6.1.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2006.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is used by 8,212 tracked packages, including python-docx, python-pptx and redshift-connector.

Downloads
Day
13.1M
Week
92.7M
Month
379.2M
Stars
3.0K
Forks
619
Issues
0
Version
6.1.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
76
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
379,207,320
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
379,207,320
Stars
3,041
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
13,241,080
Month daily avg
12,640,244
Momentum
+4.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
49 days ago
Total releases
176
Releases/year
8.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
167
Monthly downloads
379,207,320
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
69
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 10.4M
Windows 781.8K
macOS 139.0K

Python Versions

3.12
46.6% 4.9M
3.13
20.2% 2.1M
3.11
19.0% 2.0M
3.10
10.5% 1.1M
3.14
3.7% 392.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
8.9M
2. IN IN
496.3K
3. SG SG
353.2K
4. NL NL
219.6K
5. DE DE
219.3K
6. CN CN
174.7K
7. IE IE
171.0K
8. GB GB
106.2K
9. BR BR
83.9K
10. JP JP
73.1K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
March 21, 2006
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
6.1.1
Total Releases
176
Contributors
167
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
lxml dev team
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp32 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp310 pp311 pp37 pp38 pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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